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steelclaw wrote:In around 1972/3 I got for christmas something called 'Glow-Globs' (I bet I'm the only person ever to have this and if any one has ever heard of it I will be amazed)it was in a small plastice bottle that contained stuff that glowed in the dark it was like paint(It would be bannned today I'm sure), I used to paint it on my hands and put them up to my bedroom light to make them glow, for years & years my lampshade glowed in patches.
So that's what it was called! Yes I had that too! (Amazed eh? ) When it dried it was like rubber wasn't it. You could peel it off anything you painted that wasn't absorbent.
Glow in the dark stuff was popular then. Remember the Aurora horror kits of the same era?
Lew
Yes amazed Good I'm glad I'm not the only person to have had this.I even had to steel(if that's the right word) my bottle back from my so called best friend when I saw it in his bedroom.
But I don't remember the Aurora horror kits.
This was it I'm sure not quite Glow Globs but made by the same people.
Not when you are trying to build it in GOSH with a small person asking if it is ready yet? in an overly-loud voice. Not embarassed about having the Beano in my hands, but being so cack-handed that it took about 3 minutes just to get the screws out of the sellotape!
I started to say something sensible but my parents took over my brain!
steelclaw wrote:I even had to steel(if that's the right word) my bottle back
As you cannot steal something that already belongs to you, I would have thought that, in your case, claw would have been a more appropriate verb to use.
wilsia wrote: Interesting fact I dont ever recall a free gift in TV Comic.
Circa 1961/2 TV Comic was the first title I had on standing order at the newsagent and it certainly gave away free gifts then. Two I remember were a fiendishly complicated Supercar kit and a sheet of Popeye transfers. (Incidentally, does anybody remember those sheets of transfers? At the time they were tremendously popular with children: you used to buy them from the same shops that sold comics and they covered every subject under the sun from 'Flags of the World' to popular TV shows! )
steelclaw wrote:I even had to steel(if that's the right word) my bottle back
As you cannot steal something that already belongs to you, I would have thought that, in your case, claw would have been a more appropriate verb to use.
Nothing was ever said about it when I took it back, I mean what could he say.
Possibly the worst ever free gift was in (the otherwise quite nice) Tarzan Weekly no. 1, 11th June 1977, published by Byblos Productions. It's a free 'Super Survival Tarzan Kit bag.'
It basically consists of a small cellophane-type bag with a sheet of paper inside telling you 'What To Put In Your Survival Kit Bag.' E.g.: A length of tough string; 'raid Mum's larder for some salt - it's really useful to get rid of swamp leeches'; two kitchen roll tubes (to make binoculars), etc.
There isn't really room in this 'survival kit bag' to fit the ten things suggested. It's quite a pathetic free gift.
Amusingly someone has this issue with free gift on Ebay now as a £75 Buy It Now. I got it from Ebay, mint with free gift, for £4.00 a few weeks ago.
philcom55 wrote:Incidentally, does anybody remember those sheets of transfers? At the time they were tremendously popular with children: you used to buy them from the same shops that sold comics and they covered every subject under the sun from 'Flags of the World' to popular TV shows!
Here are some from a less stressful age, Phil. In this booklet there were 6 pages (now only 4), each with 24 different transfers. The individual pictures are just over 1'' square. I remember that in the primary school we were in the habit of sticking them on the back of our hands.
philcom55 wrote:I remember those spinning buzzers being given away in Weetabix as well. In fact for a time breakfast cereals seemed to be supplied by the same free gift manufacturers as Fleetway and DC Thomson - as well as aiming them at the same consumer base!
These motor car cards were issued in 1949 by Kelloggs Corn Flakes. They issued a coloured set and a black and white set, and you got one card in a small packet, two in a large. They were loose so you had to rummage through the corn flakes for them. I originally didn't think I would be able to respond to Phil's point with an illustration because my two sets are framed, but while I was looking for the booklet of transfers I came across some loose spares, so here are four of them.
What were those transfers you used to get(or still do) where you had a Card back ground of a war scene or Jungle and you used to pencil over a soldier or animal to add to the scene? when I used to do it only half a soldier just to end up on the picture
I'm sure it's been mentioned before on here.
steelclaw wrote:What were those transfers you used to get(or still do) where you had a Card back ground of a war scene or Jungle and you used to pencil over a soldier or animal to add to the scene? when I used to do it only half a soldier just to end up on the picture
I'm sure it's been mentioned before on here.
Letraset Action Transfers.
Lew
PS: Thanks for the glow paint photos. That's the stuff!
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wilsia wrote: Interesting fact I dont ever recall a free gift in TV Comic.
Circa 1961/2 TV Comic was the first title I had on standing order at the newsagent and it certainly gave away free gifts then. Two I remember were a fiendishly complicated Supercar kit and a sheet of Popeye transfers. (Incidentally, does anybody remember those sheets of transfers? At the time they were tremendously popular with children: you used to buy them from the same shops that sold comics and they covered every subject under the sun from 'Flags of the World' to popular TV shows! )
- Nostalgic Phil Rushton
I remember having sheets of Doctor Who transfers in the early Sixties. I imagine they'd be quite rare and valuable today.
TV Comic had some free tv star stickers and an album around 1966.
) When it dried it was like rubber wasn't it. You could peel it off anything you painted that wasn't absorbent.
